Striving to Get to Heaven?

        The following is the third in a series of eight of the benefits & blessings God has bestowed upon every one of His children:

Striving to get to Heaven need no longer be a concern for you because God chose to give you a seat on the same return flight that Jesus took when He ascended back to Heaven, as is evidenced by this: But God being rich in mercy, because of his great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places, in Christ Jesus (Ephesians 2:4-6). In other words, you are already in Heaven and comfortably seated at God’s right hand in Jesus!

          Sadly, for many Christians the main focus of their lives is centered on trying to get to heaven, when truth be known, they are already there. As a result of this futile pursuit, they never enjoy the blessings of living in the here and now; instead, they are either digging through the past, trying to be sure they are forgiven for all of their sins, or they are worrying about and dreading having to stand before God on that day of the “great white throne judgment.”

          If the above text is true, when it indicates that we HAVE BEEN raised up with Jesus and seated with Him in the Heavenly places (and it is!), then surely it is obvious that our sins are forgiven—all of them—and it is just as obvious that we have already been judged to be as righteous as Jesus is righteous.

          All His doing! Blessed be the name of the Lord for He is worthy to be praised!  

         

         

"This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He has sent" (John 6:29 NASB).